The Civic Hub Builder Newsletter (August 8, 2025)
Civic Hubs: Learning, Metrics, and Microgrants
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With four learning cohorts — including 27 civic hub builders — now in progress, hands-on learning, sharing, and encouragement are happening! As more communities are recognizing the transformational potential of civic hubs, we are happy to report that our network of communities forming civic hubs is continuing to rapidly grow and develop:
No more re-creating the same wheels. No more being slowed down by trying the same things that have not worked elsewhere. By being connected with each other and having opportunities to share our learnings, we can accelerate all of our community efforts.
In that vein, for the first time ever (and quarterly going forward), all civic hub builders + learning cohorts (plus a select group of advisors and national partners offering support to civic hubs) are invited to virtually come together for a Civic Hubs Learning Community Call on August 27th at 4pm EST!
The goals of the call are to:
Exchange learnings & innovations across learning cohorts
Create connections between hub builders, learning cohorts, and national partners
Increase civic hubs’ awareness of available support from national partners that they can invite into our communities
Enhance national partners’ awareness of community-level needs and energies
Each learning cohort is requested to have at least one representative attend the call and be prepared to speak to major learnings, “aha” moments, and results of attempted community actions from your cohort.
Other civic hub builders are encouraged, but not expected, to attend.
Help Needed:
Breakout room facilitators
Input on breakout room topics
Please e-mail Alex to volunteer to facilitate or with any input.
Monthly Metrics Input
Thanks to Kristina Becvar and theBetter Together America Evaluating Impact Team for creating a platform for us to easily submit data every month to help us track our hub’s progress, analyze our hub’s efficacy, and make a stronger case to funders/potential members.
Please click here to submit your July “Measurements and Impact” form — please complete by August 15th.
Kristina and co. are standing by to talk through your civic hub’s evaluation program…please also reach out if you have feedback and/or want to engage with the Evaluating Impact Team.
Announcing $500 Microgrants!!!
As a show of appreciation for participating in +80% of (a) learning cohort calls and (b) the aforementioned metrics program, one civic hub builder from each location/hub is eligible to receive a $500 BTA microgrant!
To receive this microgrant, fill out, sign, and submit this Memorandum of Understanding form to Caleb and have a completed Direct Deposit form on file. If you previously submitted a Direct Deposit form (for a Workshop Scholarship), then you do not need to submit a new one. If you need to submit a Direct Deposit form, then send the signed Memorandum of Understanding form to Caleb, and he will provide further instructions for securely submitting the Direct Deposit form.